On behalf of the Burgess and Commissioners of the Village, I
would like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.

I would like to remind everyone to make sure that when you
fill out your Maryland State income tax forms, you list Rosemont as your city
of residence.A portion of your tax
money is returned to the Village.This
is a large part of our budget.If you
put Frederick County or Brunswick in that block then your money goes to them.So please double check to make sure you list
Rosemont in that block.

Also, if you see a street light out, please send me an email
or give me a call. We pay a flat rate
for the lights and we would like to see them all working.

Monday, January 26, 7pm
at Merryland Park. The agenda items are: 1. Discuss repairs to the playground at
Merryland Park; 2. Discuss bulk
trash pickup for this spring; 3. discuss newspapers being thrown along
Petersville Rd.. Please check your email on Monday; if we get a storm
and the parking lot is slick, the meeting will be canceled.

I wanted to let you know that we have been continuing to work with
First Energy regarding the power issues in Brunswick and Rosemont. Please see
the information below as an update directly from their representative. I am
happy to report that the major work is complete as of today!

This Friday, October 10 we completed our 12Kv realignment work and
abandoned the section of line that was the source of numerous outages and the
recent surges that caused problems for some residents of Rosemont and
Brunswick. This was the last in a series of improvements we made to our system
in order to address reliability and power quality issues in that area.

Now, we certainly can’t promise that residents of Brunswick and
Rosemont will never experience another power outage, but we certainly CAN
guarantee that they will never see another outage or surge due to problems on
THAT line in THAT place!

The Rosemont village meeting will be Monday September 29,
7pm at Merryland Park. Agenda: Final
report on the water system and update on the power line work.

Also: There will be a public hearing on the final benefit
assessment for the Rosemont Water Users.
This will be before the County Commissioners, Thursday Sept. 25, 9:30 am
at Winchester Hall. I will be attending
and will have a report at our September 29 meeting.

I just got an update
from Del. Kelly Schultz on the power line work. The switch at the
Brunswick Substation on the high voltage line has been installed and is
operational. This means that the high voltage line that is over our
supply line is now not energized. If a tree comes down on the line it
will not cause a power surge. The lower voltage line that is our power
supply is scheduled to be removed from the stream valley and hooked to the
Petersville substation. This work should be completed by the end of
October. They should be starting on tree trimming in our area soon.
It looks like the power surge problem has been solved, and we should be
hooked up to the Petersville substation soon, which will be more reliable.

Below
is an email I received from Potomac Edison after our meeting today. As
you can see, Potomac Edison is moving the line out of the valley at Brunswick
Crossing, and this should eliminate future power surges. This should also
eliminate a lot of the outages we have had. I will let everyone know when
this is completed.

-Tom

Msg. from Dave Kline:

We have initiated a number of construction projects that
will reconfigure some of our existing circuits. This will allow us to serve
customers that have been affected by over voltage on the line that is built
under the sub transmission line via other circuits, eliminating that particular
area of exposure. We will then abandon that problem section of Distribution
line. Please keep in mind that there are always possibilities of problems and
outages on the electrical grid. We are simply eliminating exposure to a known
and isolated problem area.

We have also initiated a construction project at the
Brunswick substation that will isolate and protect it from many sustained
outages similar to those that have been experienced recently. Future problems
that occur may produce only a momentary interruption as opposed to a sustained
outage.